Accessibility

Tweed Shire Council is committed to providing equal access to our community, including via
our website and customer services.

Design

The site is
designed to cater for a range of browsers and support our community, including
those with physical impairments or conditions that may limit access to our
services or technical problems such as low bandwidth speeds and old browsers.
Visitors and users of our site will have different experiences depending on
their operating system and browser.

Our page layouts feature Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the entire site has a
renewed customer/user focus to provide an improved online experience and
navigation of one of our primary communication tools.

Features

Council's new
website features significant improvements in accessibility including greater
compliance with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
accessibility standards and functions including:

Changing text size

Contrast options (white/black, black/white, on/off)

Magnifying the screen (if supported by your browser)

Printing documents

Emailing links and pages

Access keys

Information Formats

Council's
site generally provides information in HTML format for maximum accessibility
however documentation and downloads are generally in Adobe Portable Document
(PDF) format. To view or print PDF documents you will need the software
Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from
www.adobe.com.
To convert PDF documents to HTML or plain text formats use the Online conversion
tools provided by Adobe at
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html.

Experiencing Difficulties?

If you
encounter accessibility difficulties with our website, please provide feedback
to the webmaster. Alternatively our contact details are available in the
bottom navigation bar on each page within our site.